It has been just more than a month since dozens of students died at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama unveiled a package of gun control proposals aimed at reducing gun violence and improving safety at the nation’s schools.

As in Washington, leaders in central Ohio have mixed reactions about Obama’s proposals, which include a ban on military-style assault weapons like the AR-15 used in Newtown and Aurora, Colo.

Obama also wants to limit ammunition magazines to a maximum of 10 rounds and toughen penalties on gun traffickers.

Columbus Division of Police Chief Kim Jacobs said that she believes the nation is ready for “common sense solutions” to gun violence problems.

“Everybody has tremendous heartbreak at what happened just recently in Newtown and has been happening on a regular basis, unfortunately,” Jacobs said. “We also have murders going on. Of our 90 murders that happened last year, 75 were committed by firearm.”

Jacobs said that of the 2,000 guns confiscated or turned in to Columbus police last year, approximately 120 were assault-style weapons.

“Those rifles will do an awful lot of damage,” Jacobs said. “That bullet can travel more than a mile. When you think about the density in the City of Columbus and thinking about how many walls that could pass through, how many people that could pass through; it’s pretty scary.”

Susan Owen with the Ohio Parent Teacher Association said that her group supports most of the President’s plan.

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